If you take King & Penny out of that picture, the 'grouping' on the left of the posts is ridiculious. There must be three people there, not even marking a man, just bunched. It's that, that is the problem, and has been for the last 18 months now. If they all crouched, and shouted a name who they were marking, there's be at least three of them who couldn't.

I'm not sure about that tbh JWP. Look at it closely and you can see that every defender has a man marked.

The third man in is in a very good position to make the tackle on the man with the ball. King has moved in too far.

Penny does make a mistake on this by coming in, but I suggest that if King holds his position, Penny holds his. I think Penny panics because he can see that if the ball comes out, they score as it is 2 on 1 so he goes in to cut the move off.

This try was the one just shown on B&A. If you run this through King & Penny cover the gaps, the winger passes the ball back inside & scores in Briers spot whilst he's maoning about the forward pass to the ref.

From memory, doesn't Penny tackle Gardner and he passes back inside to Gidley. Where is his oppsite number as he walks over unopposed.

Agree - and very strongly agree with the bit in bold. Briers and Louis do that side and either Briers is AWOL &/or Louis is out of the traps mashing it up and leaving King & Penny to deal with the resultant mess.



Disagree.

Don't blame Penny, blame everything that goes on inside him - as yer man up there says, it's being going on for 18 months.

Who blamed Penny?

I disagreed with JWP's point that players are not in decent positions inside of King.

On that photo at that stage, it is probably only King who is out of position, with Penny possibly dragged in a little too far because of that.

Moving on, I don't doubt that the inside players are lazy to cover etc. but on that phot, there is one Wire defender within a couple of metres of every Saints player.

You can see the man with the ball looks like he is due to step inside. There is no reason for King to come so far in and get involved. There are plenty of defenders there to cover.

Edit: One other point, Briers has only been defending on the left this year. He was working the right with Gleeson last year.

Exactly the one. As the second rower passes Briers shows his booty for a forward pass. King/Penny cover their marks & the ball is passed inside for Gidley to walk in as Briers realises what he's done.

for those confused with a different try just to clear up confusion this isnt the try When Penny tackles Gardner and he off loads to gidley......this is where Gardner scores in the corner very similar to the foot in touch one..

yes Rob I understand that Penny gets sucked in but the photo Highlights Matt kings poor play.....why is he going for Flannery who has just changed direction and is heading for the three bunched Wire players. it shows he has no concern for anything out wide.....it also highlights the poor defence offered by the bunch of players that should have dealt with Flannery or at the very least kept a tight defensive line.


Flannery offloads in a very poor two man tackle which is another mistake not of Penny's doing..... Penny is the first to react to the offload and yes he does come in for it. but what would you do Rob knowing Gardners already on your outside Gidleys on the outside of King if pryce throws the ball straight to Gidley as he did for the foot in touch "try" its curtains anyway.....

and Matt king also got to Gidley for the foot in touch "try" too.
getting to him means nothing where Matt king is concerned though is it Rob he struggles to make any kind of effective tackle.

I used that picture because quite simply I also believe its a Saints set move look at Pryce..... he's not changed his direction to go left like flannery.... I believe Flannery is doing a move we've all seen and used before...the second row heads back towards the goal posts dragging defenders with him, he hits the defenders with the shoulder rolls round offloads to pryce who is coming back out wide, the opposite way to our defenders pops it to gidley who gives Gardner a walk in.....

either way Penny's left in the Shino at the start of the move.

I make no apologies for sticking up for Penny. I will continue to do so until I believe he has nothing to offer Warrington Rugby League club. infact i'll have to step it up a gear while we have what appears to be a simpleton in charge of coaching the team....

Just watched that try again on Boots'N'All, and Briers is not out of position due to appealing.

King is actually 4th man in, with Anderson, Briers and Penny outside him. Anderson, King and Briers follow the ball out wide to cover with Penny, and leave the space inside.

The main problem is that they all just go for the man with the ball, meaning that Gardner just had to offload. A couple of those players should have had faith that the tackle would have been completed, and held back in case of an offload.

People are making out that Briers was out of position due to appealing the pass, and this isn;t the case, if anything, he should have held back, yet goes too far over, as did Anderson and King, when really it only needed one of them and Penny.

I was maybe rushing a tad, and didn't explain my point well. My point was that if you look at the defenders, the positions that they are in etc, body positions and whatnot, they are awful. They are just 'scattered' as oppose to getting off the line and pointing out 'who is there man', you've got a bloke on a wraparound play that King will feel he needs to go for because nobody is near enough nor seems to have tracked his run, and it's easy to see how he gets sucked in. There's two or three, who may be in a good position Dave ie, on the field, but in terms of actually being in a good position to make the tackle, they may as well not be there.

I think what happens in general is, in my terms, ie, simple mans terms, there's a problem somewhere by the posts, and every defender along somewhat plugs that gap, so your backrow goes in to cover, phew, the gap/overlap moves wider, the centre moves in to cover the backrow slot, phew, the winger covers the centres ground, phew, Gardener walks in the corner (or doesn't as Penny ahs the presence of mind to go for him) and the try is scored.

The upshot is that Penny is left all on his own, with little or no hope. If he stayed on his wing, he'd leave a massive gap, literally 15m between him & King, Gidley would walk in, and the players would look at him no doubt for not 'pulling in' as that's the structure we've adopted, he can't win.

I can't work out, how we can't work out why this is happening. Cull couldn't stop it, fine, he didn't coach defence or whatever, but how come a new broom can't stop it ? I don't get it. Why can't we come up with a new structure to stop it happening ? I'm asking the Mark_m's of this world ?